Good luck with the insurance. You are in a negotiation with a professional negotiator that wants to pay you the minimum, so you either have to fight for equitable compensation or be content with getting ripped off.

Congrats. At least you hopefully will be getting one of your guns back soon. Hopefully they can find the other suspect in the video.

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Update
Pittsburg pd attended court in San Francisco yesterday and Esters pled guilt to felony possession of stolen property. Now a case will be built against him for burglary.*

What kind of time is he looking at

It really depends on his history of arrests. Most likely, and unfortunately he'll either get minimal jail time and bail out or get supervised probation, which he's probably been on before.

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I am a physician. I am held to being "the expert" in medicine. I can't fall back on feigned ignorance and the statement that the patient should have known better than I. When an officer "can't be expected to know the entire penal code", but a citizen is held to "ignorance is no excuse", this is equivalent to ME being able to sue my patient for my own malpractice-after all, the patient should have known better, right?

It really depends on his history of arrests. Most likely, and unfortunately he'll either get minimal jail time and bail out or get supervised probation, which he's probably been on before.

Well, let's hope he's snitched on his pals to get his 16 months in jail or two to three years in prison reduced.

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Its a very common time of day. Most people are at work. They must have known his routine, they knew enough that he had cameras.

Its at 10:30am cause these DB's dont get there lazy azzes outta bed till then!

I have also heard that this is avery common time......Sucks! there is a warm place in HE**! for folks that does this.....

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Most of the further discussion beyond the clear concise answer is usually people just trying to convince others that the Penal Code/Case Law doesn't really apply because their uncle's friend's cousin's son-in-law works as a gardener for a retired judge from another state who might or might not have said he doesn't think it applies to a certain case that has absolutely nothing to do with the question the OP asked.

Same thing happened to me. All they managed to do was break my window and cd player. That deck was only worth like $100 too. Losers.....

These are most likely the drug using, or currently intoxicated types, doing it for a thrill or to get a thrill later.

The ones that hit OP's house are organized and spent time casing and learning schedules, IMHO if they catch 1 of 4 guys they should give him a sentence that equals all 4 if he chooses not to give names. So for example 4 guys commit burglary together, and they only catch one guy, if burglary was 2 years in jail, he can either give up the names of others and serve his 2 years, or be hard *** and do 8 years. His choice.

More likely it's because the jails are bursting at the seams and California is under a court order to reduce overcrowding.

I have a solution to that problem. Put all the non-violent inmates in a rock quarry and make them work off their debt to society. Its called prison for a reason. They shouldn't just get a stay at Club-Pen. They should work it off.

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My house got broken into about 5 years ago when we were all gone. They went in through the kids bedroom window sometime before 11am. After ransacking their room and stealing all their change, they "tried" to go to the other rooms in the house. Luckily we had a 9 year old Rottweiler (RIP) who was waiting outside the kids room for whomever to come out of there. They didn't make it any further, and went right back out the window. Good ol' girl scared him away.

Long story short they caught him a few months later and had his fingerprints associated with almost a dozen other homes. He made a deal for 8 years.

I went out and bought a CCTV system after that and have had it ever since.

My house got broken into about 5 years ago when we were all gone. They went in through the kids bedroom window sometime before 11am. After ransacking their room and stealing all their change, they "tried" to go to the other rooms in the house. Luckily we had a 9 year old Rottweiler (RIP) who was waiting outside the kids room for whomever to come out of there. They didn't make it any further, and went right back out the window. Good ol' girl scared him away.

Long story short they caught him a few months later and had his fingerprints associated with almost a dozen other homes. He made a deal for 8 years.

I went out and bought a CCTV system after that and have had it ever since.

Where is everyone putting the dvr to these home surveillance systems? I'd imagine the burglar would just steal that as well? You can't put it in a safe, it would create too much heat.

Where is everyone putting the dvr to these home surveillance systems? I'd imagine the burglar would just steal that as well? You can't put it in a safe, it would create too much heat.

Most commonly, hidden behind or under a large piece of furniture.
High up on a shelf in an odd closet (hall closets are best, rarely ever would a thief look in one).
Or best yet, hidden in the attic!

Most home security DVR's now have a couple excellent features.

1: Ethernet capable. - This gives you 2 things. Access on PC or from a Smart Phone. While home OR away.

2: Video Out (some have multiple). In my house, I have one that runs to the TV in my bedroom, and one to the living room TV.

I can access my video feed, from anywhere I have net access. Call me a tinfoil hat type. But All of my PC's are run "Server Closet" style. All PC's have battery backup, as does my DVR and the router it is on, and cable modem.

Even in most cases of a power outage, I have access to my video feed, for up to 1 hour. (Also, I leave 1 night light on at ALL times in my house, which is seen in a camera feed. Yep, redneck power outage indicator!)

I thought they caught one perp with possession of one of your handguns?

Yeah, the M&P. He hasn't gotten it back yet. You think the police just take it out of the hands of the criminal and hand it back to the rightful owner? No no no. It can take many months or even years to get a gun back, even if it wasn't used in a crime while the criminal had it. You may have to constantly pester, threaten to sue, etc, the agency that has your gun in order to get it back at all.